Whereas, PCRM has engaged in a multi-year crusade against the March of Dimes including protests directed at March walkers, volunteers, and donors; and
Whereas, PCRM discourages donations to health charities that support research with animals, like the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the American Foundation for AIDS Research, the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation and the American Red Cross; and
Whereas, PCRM represents itself as a physician’s group with fewer than five percent physician members; and
Whereas, The AMA reiterated its strong support for advocacy of animal research at the 2006 Annual Meeting; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That our AMA strongly object to the positions of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) that denounce animal research; and be it further
RESOLVED, That our AMA condemn these ongoing activities of the PCRM that impede humane and responsible animal research.

The neurologists’ groups hit the nail on the head, especially by noting how few actual physicians make up this phony “physicians committee” (the latest numbers indicate that it’s now less than four percent).
We can’t wait to hear PCRM’s feeble explanation for how the mainstream medical profession is misinterpreting its work to save lab rats and guinea pigs at the expense of people. But the bottom line is this: Why should a group of animal activists who don’t care about your survival have any say in what you eat (or what you feed your children)?
You guessed it. They shouldn’t.
Bonus reading material: “7 Things You Didn’t Know” about PCRM, and a whole website devoted to exposing its brand of PETA-approved quackery.NOTE: This article was edited to correct an error.